Post by cnu5000 on Mar 12, 2009 6:23:24 GMT -5
My apologies to the younger readers of this web site.
However, one of my goals as a mid-life child-free person is that I need to improve my skills with the younger generation. Since I am an only child and don't have children it is not coming through family.
My friends tend to be my age or older. My 86 year old father had a pacemaker put in and it was because he was older it was a difficult sugery and he is having trouble now. He is in a rehab now. Because I am an only child and my parents are shy people and it is only my mother and me that are family in the area I have been busy visiting him and talking him for walks. Right now he is very physicially(he can go for long walks but he needs some
to take him) and mentally active(he still works as a scientist and LOVES computers-he is a computer addict). I think about eighty percent of what I do for him could be done by any younger person and if he had the right personality(he is very quiet person) younger people might be willing to help.
Of course he has me
but when I am old and I won't have someone like me.
So as part of my resolution as I get older is to reach out to younger people.
My in person skills with older people are better then younger people. I think I like being the junior person.
I have given up on children(not that I am exposed to that many) both because I am child-free and because I think relationships with children involve triangles with the parents. I think the group I am targeting are upper teens to thirties.
However, one of my goals as a mid-life child-free person is that I need to improve my skills with the younger generation. Since I am an only child and don't have children it is not coming through family.
My friends tend to be my age or older. My 86 year old father had a pacemaker put in and it was because he was older it was a difficult sugery and he is having trouble now. He is in a rehab now. Because I am an only child and my parents are shy people and it is only my mother and me that are family in the area I have been busy visiting him and talking him for walks. Right now he is very physicially(he can go for long walks but he needs some
to take him) and mentally active(he still works as a scientist and LOVES computers-he is a computer addict). I think about eighty percent of what I do for him could be done by any younger person and if he had the right personality(he is very quiet person) younger people might be willing to help.
Of course he has me
but when I am old and I won't have someone like me.So as part of my resolution as I get older is to reach out to younger people.
My in person skills with older people are better then younger people. I think I like being the junior person.
I have given up on children(not that I am exposed to that many) both because I am child-free
and because I think relationships with children involve triangles with the parents. I think the group I am targeting are upper teens to thirties.
Well, because we ARE kids. LOL. ;D 